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  Apple has given us the Indian pricing of its Snow Leopard OS and for the first time it looks like they haven’t disappointed on the pricing front. Just like the international policy followed by Apple, Indian Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard users are also eligible for a upgrade, which will cost Rs. 1,800 for [...]

  The fact that Amazon Germany got the PS3 Slim listing right the last time, there’s a chance we can bank on the new one too. The current top end Xbox 360 Elite model comes with a 120GB HDD but the new listing shows the console with a 250GB hard drive. The console is priced [...]

  In addition to A500 series DSLRs, Sony also announced a full-frame Alpha A850 DSLR. The new DSLR builds on the features of Sony’s A900 camera but at a lesser price. The 24.6 megapixel A850 integrates a 35mm full-frame Exmor sensor coupled with dual BIONZ imaging processors to capture topnotch photos. A850 has a unique [...]

  The leak on the official site way back in May has now come to fruition as Sony officially announced A500 and A550 DSLRs. Both these Alpha cameras boast the unique sensor-processor combination in the form of Exmor-BIONZ that helps to take improved quality photos in low-light scenarios. The A500 and A550 are capable of [...]

  Asus’ world domination with the Eee brand had slowed down recently but it looks like they’ll be back with a bang, starting with an e-book reader. Asus President, Jerry Shen confirmed to Digitimes that an e-book reader under its Eee brand can come by the end of 2009. Though other details weren’t divulged, it [...]

  Sharp has announced an ARM-based PC-Z1 Netwalker touchscreen netbook in the Japanese market. In fact MID would be an apt tag since it sits nicely between the netbook and mobile phone nomenclature. Anyways, the small PC-Z1 is powered by Freescale’s Cortex-A8 based i.MX515 SoC and features include a 5-inch touchscreen display (1024×600), Ubuntu 9.0.4 [...]

  MSI has confirmed to launch a touchscreen netbook that will be powered by Pine Trail, Intel’s next-gen Atom platform. The 10-inch Wind U150 will be one of the first netbooks with Pine Trail platform and will run Windows 7. Internal tests at MSI have shown Pine Trail netbooks to improve graphics performance and around [...]

  Nokia is surely building some excitement for next week’s Nokia World. Its the fourth announcement in four days and today marks an entry of N900, Nokia’s Linux-based Maemo 5 OS. Unlike previous attempts of hiding the processor info, Nokia this time, is boasting the integration ARM Cortex-A8 processor clocked at 600MHz with application memory [...]

  Microsoft has announced what we’ve been hearing for the past few months. Starting from tomorrow, the Xbox 360 Elite’s price will be reduced to $299.99 and Pro will be making its way out. However, until Pro’s stock runs out, retailers will be selling it for $249.99. The Xbox 360 Arcade price remains unchanged at [...]

  Qualcomm will soon launch its affordable gaming console in the Mexican market. Known as Zeebo, Qualcomm targets emerging markets where gaming is an expensive investment and needs buying of physical media to play new games. Zeebo basically removes the need to buy physical media as it supports wireless downloading. Games can be downloaded via [...]

  Nokia today unveiled its new mobile financial service dubbed as the Nokia Money. The disparity of 4 billion mobile phones and 1.6 billion bank accounts has made Nokia to provide basic financial services that can be accessed from mobile phones. Users will be able to do a lot of things like sending or receiving [...]

  A new report has emerged claiming Qualcomm to be making a handheld device supporting FLO TV. The device, known as FLO TV Personal Television (PTV) will apparently be sized as big as iPhone and will be able to transmit FLO TV broadcasts. FLO TV is equivalent to T-DMB, DVB-H and 1seg that is found [...]

  Fujitsu and Willcom’s co-jointly developed security solution will soon be seen in Lifebook FMV-S8930. Dubbed as CLEARSURE, the security solution allows users to lock the PC or delete the data on the HDD remotely in case of a theft or loss. To make it work, a user needs to access Fujitsu’s control server and [...]

  Sony’s DSC-TX1 and DSC-WX1 digital cameras will soon grace the Indian stores. These point-and-shoots are different from the rest of the clan because it integrates Exmor R back illuminated CMOS sensor technology that doubles up the sensitivity of the camera effectively helping to improve photos in low-light conditions. Both the cameras are equipped with [...]

  Just like an unboxing ceremony, geeks with little more curiosity have taken up something extra – dissecting the gadget. The geeks who generally do this are the iFixit folks and the gadget in question today is the PS3 Slim. They managed to get their hands on the unit and reveal the innards of this [...]